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November 17 New blog siteSo I changed my blog site for those of you who actually read it. It is now: thejmitchellfamily.blogspot.com
I hope to keep that one a little more updated and I made the address a little easier to remember. So go and visit and let me know what you think! September 30 FuneralSo my grandma died a week ago today. Her funeral was on monday. It was strange. She was the last living grandparent I had. It was a good thing she passed, she was in a lot of pain there at the end and she was kind of losing it. Don't feel sad for me, because I don't. Not to be heartless, but I really didn't feel like she was my grandma in the way that a grandma should be. Does that make sense? She was my grandmother because she was my mother's mother, that's about it.
I'm more greatful that my mother can get on with her life now. She took care of all my grandparents, including my dad's parents. For some reason this was the place they came to die. Which is strange because my parents are converts and they, at least my mom's parents, didn't really like that my parents became "Mormons". So my mom had to put up with a lot of negative behavior directed towards her. And she did it with love and her head held high!
I just want all to know out there how much I love my mom. She has done more for others, and put up with more from others, than I can imagine. She is a wonderful woman and I'm glad that she was strong enough to stand up for what she believed in! She has shown Christ-like love to those who might not have deserved it (so say I) and she is the type of person I want to be some day!
I love you mom! Thanks for all you have given me and shown me!  September 17 LifeFor those of you who actually read my blog, I apologize for the absence. I guess that I just assumed that most everybody that read my blog was on Facebook so they would just get all my updates from there.
This summer has been interesting, to say the least. It's been hot like summer usually is. But it has also been really rainy, which is wierd, good, but wierd. We have been doing ok. I 've been through 2 jobs this year and am currently not working. One job I also had years ago hust wasn't giving me enough hours. Then I moved on to Maverik (yes, the gas station) which was great for a little while until all the drama popped up. I know that you have drama pretty much with any job you have, but that and the fact that I never go to see Joey for longer than 10 minutes a day and I would get home late, be wide awake and then not go to sleep till even later. Not a good combo for me! So, now I am at home with my boys and, soon to be, girl!
Yes, I am pregnant and we are having a girl!! Let's just say that I am a little excited. Ok, a lot excited and nervous at the same time. I'm not due until December so I have a little while to get used to the fact, but it still makes me wonder how I will be with a girl. Noah is too funny. He wanted the baby to be a boy, but now he keeps telling everyone that he has a baby sister. Also when I say to get something for him and Elias he says, "And one for baby sister too". Too funny!
Speaking of Noah....he has been most of my excitement for the summer. Let me back up a little. To start our new life in Wyoming he left Utah with 7 stitches in his head! Not much really happened to him besides the typical bumps and scrapes until we went camping in July. We go camping for a week with my whole family every summer and this year EVERYONE showed up! We also had some friends that came for a few days as well. So that added up to 40+ people and it made it a little hard to keep track of everyone, but nothing too major happened until my birthday. Noah and his cousin, Ada, got lost on the mountain.......FOR 4 HOURS!!! I have to tell you that those were the longest, scariest, and hardest hours of my life! They were eventually found by my brother, Jason, without a scratch almost 2 MILES from camp. Don't ask me how two 3-year-olds went that far without hurting themselves or being found by wildlife, but I know that Heavenly Father was watching them. He had angels with them and He answered our prayers! I still start to cry every time I think or talk about it.
So if that wasn't enough, Noah then broke his arm about 3 weeks ago! Right before he was going to start his first year at preschool. He hit his brother and I told him to go to his room and........let's just say that kids really do hurt themselves when they throw a hard enough fit! I told him that he has to stop taking after his mommy (I broke my arm falling out of a tree when I was 4). Then a few days later he started running a fever of 104 and was throwing up. He then, of course, passed that lovely little bug onto Elias. Fortunately it only last for a few days, but he was one miserable little man for those few days. Sometimes I wonder why I had kids.......
 Also this summer we got a cat......... and then a dog. Our kitty is named Zoey, but I think that I've posted stuff about her already. Well, she was cute and fun and cudly then..........she is rotten and mean and very fiesty now!! She will purr and rub on your leg, but you pet her for a few minutes and she starts growling and bitting and clawing! Well, then we got a dog. He's sort of a dog. He's a schnoodle, aka schnauzer-poodle mix, named Jack. He is all black and fuzzy and cute and not very big and doesn't shed and is hypo-allergenic. He's now just a little bit bigger than the cat (which she hates). He loves the kitty and she has finally "warmed" up to him. Which means she will play with him without trying to hurt him too bad. They are cute! He is completely attatched to me and I can't even leave the room without him following me. It's endearing, but a little annoying sometimes.
Life is hectic and busy, but good. I got a calling (I was going to say 'new calling', but since this is the 1st one in this ward I took out the 'new' part) and am the vice-chair person on the parent council for Noah's preschool. Joey works and then usually goes golfing with my dad after work. (Golf memberships are CHEAP here, but I have been regretting that we got it for most of the summer!) Elias is getting bigger every day. He is really starting to talk a lot more lately and still falls down all the time. He is a clutz! He takes after me in that area as well, the poor kid! I think that he was born just to pester Noah and he delights in it a little more than he should. But what are kid brothers for anyway?!? Ok, I think that is enough for one blog post! I hope that you stuck through it until the end. Adios!
PS- I might change my blog site. I think I might go over to blogspot, cuz this blog site is rather boring as far as appearances go. I will let you know. May 29 It's been......So it has been quite a long time since I posted anything on here. I'm not een sure if anyone even checks it anymore. We shall see......
We had a great Memorial Day weekend. We went to Salt Lake to see my new nephew! He is adorable! I would post pictures on here, but I am pretty sure that most of you have already seen them on Facebook. Maybe I will put some on here later. It was so neat to see Sarah (my sister-in-law) with a baby! She is such a great mommy and her husband was just enthrawled with both of them!
We also got to see some of our wonderful friends that we miss dearly! We love you guys and thanks for being true friends!
We got to see Grandma Mitchell as well. Noah was so excited to see her! He talks about going to her house all the time and we have to tell him that we live too far away from her to just go and visit really quick. That doensn't discourage him though, he will always talk about her and want to show her stuff.
Things here in Lovell are good. Getting really hot, which is great because our garden is finally growing! All but 2 things have sprouted. Those that haven't are in soil that is a little sandier than the rest of the garden so we will see. I desperatly need to go out there and weed it! But like I said, it's been hot and I haven't gotten the motivation to go out there early in the morning. I also need to buy a hoe. (I know, yada yada yada, excuses excuses......)
I miss Salt Lake (mostly the people that live there), but I love having quiet, a house, a garden, a yard, cheap things to do (maybe not so many as SLC, but lots cheaper). I can't wait until we go camping for a week in July and don't have to drive 8 hours here and back and have to borrow laundry facillities after. *sigh* April 28 A night at the moviesTo give a little background first.......
My town has one movie theater that plays only one movie at a time. This beautiful building was built in 1950 and is in beautiful condition. When my family moved here in 1988 it was running and playing movies every weekend. Well, that changed not too many years after that. The owner came to realize that the building has an old heating and electrical system that is expensive to use. And that it was getting to be a quite a pain maintaining it with all the kids that went to watch the movies. So she shut it down, for years.
People in my town would have to drive 20 miles if they wanted to see a movie in the theater. Which is no big deal since they are used to driving distances to get things they need. But in recent years some have wondered why the theater here doesn't open up again.
A wonderful woman got a brilliant idea. Why not see if we can submit this building into the historical society so that we can get some funding to help fix some problems. Well, she did and it now is on the historical buildings list. She also thought that to save some more money why not get the community involved and ask people to volunteer to work at the theater. So she did and it has been running this way for the last couple of years. There is one movie that plays and only on Friday and Saturday (sometimes Monday). And none of the movies are rated "R". Isn't that awesome?!?
Well, I volunteered to work this last Saturday night and "Monsters vs. Aliens" was playing. I had Joey take the boys since Noah wanted to see it and it was the last showing. Well, I sold candy and popcorn and soda, and it was a blast! So when the final customer was helped and the movie was about to start I was told that for helping I got to watch the movie for free and get whatever size soda and popcorn I wanted!! Awesome!! Just one more reason I love this town!
It also made me feel good because Joey was mad that I volunteered to work and had worked all day at my job. And when I showed up with free soda and popcorm, boy was he happy!! So, who wants to move?
 PS- There is a picture in my photo album on here that shows the theater. It's called "The Hyartt". April 24 A little cutenessSo i finally found the cord that connects my camera to my computer to download my 332 pics\videos!! Here are a couple that I love:
This is my kitty. Her name is Zoey. We have had her for about a week now and the boys just will not leave her alone. I won't be surprised if we have to take her to the vet for an injury before she is 3 months old.
"Baby you can drive my car!" Here are the boys at the park. Look how mad Elias looks. He must be thinking, "I don't want my picture taken! I want to drive the car by myself!"
More fun at the park with daddy.
Here is the face of the man that didn't want the kitty. I think she won him over.
All grown up and already driving! "It's automatic, it's hydromatic........it's Grease Lightning!" April 21 Hello World!!THE INTERNET....AT MY HOUSE......FINALLY!!!!!!
I know that most of you are thinking, "It's about time!" and believe me that no one is thinking that more than me!! It has been far to long since I have had the internet in my own house, on my very own computer (well, Joey's too). Yippee!! So there will be more entries and I will be more accessible to the world. Sometimes I wonder if that is actually a good thing.
Anyway, updates.......Noah is finally completely, utterly, and totally potty-trained! (It's about time on that one too) It took him just to run around the house with no pants on. Also the incentive that if he went in the toilet all the time he would get a kitty! So he is trained and now we have a teeny, tiny kitty. She is 6 weeks old and adorable!! We named her Zoey and she is striped grey with white legs. I will post a picture now that I have the internet. (Can you tell I am excited?!?)
So we not only added a new animal to our house, but we are also going to be adding a new baby! That's right, I am pregnant! I found out about 2 or 3 weeks ago and I figure that I am due right around Thanksgiving. Another baby around the holidays. I told Joey that we need to plan these things a little bit better. We will have birthdays in October, November, December, and January! Sheesh!
 So that is what is new in the Mitchell family. The weather is beautiful here and I can't wait for the kiddie pool to open! (The FREE, outdoor, kiddie pool that is right down the alley from my house at the park) Not to sound like I am bragging or anything, but life is good! Till my next entry.......keep your nose clean.  April 13 Blog blockSo I haven't written in a while. I haven't been on the internet for a while either. I really need to get the internet at my house.
Well, it's been warm here lately and we have been doing yard work. I've never had a yard before so this has been fun. Hard, but fun! We have started a compost heap and we are planning on starting a garden soon. My sister says that the yard is full of red ants, so we will see how the gardening goes.
Other than that things haven't been too different or new or exciting. Easter was fun! We bought way too much candy for our little family and it is WAAAAAYYYY too tempting to eat. I think that I am going to be 200 pounds before I know it! Good thing summer is coming and I will spend more time outside and OFF my butt!
Oh! We are also getting a kitty!! Noah is FINALLY potty-trained and we told him that if he goes potty in the toilet ALL the time then he can get a kitty. They are almost big enough to take home. I'm so excited! I've never had a cat before. We will see how it goes. They are too cute though!! March 16 Teach them while they are youngMy son after he has devoured a BYU fan!
  I love these pictures! He actually got into some paint that my sister forgot she had in her back room. Good thing it was tempra paint so it just washed right out. I'm just glad that I had him wearing his Utah sweatshirt that day! Go Utes!! March 02 March Already?!?Happy March everyone! Well, I start my job tomorrow. I'm excited and not so excited at the same time. It's just a job. Not something that is going to keep my interest for long. I will let you know how it goes.
I am at my mom's house right now and they haven't been here all weekend so it is freezing in here. I will write more later when my fingers aren't little meat popsicles! February 19 Finally!So I thought that I might actually put in a blog entry. I really don't have much to say.......since the last time I blogged I got a job! Then I got a different job and put in my two weeks notice at the other job. I guess something did happen since my last enrty.
My first job was in the deli at the grocery store. I worked there about 7 years so it wasn't that hard to get back into the swing of things since nothing really changed there. Speaking of 7 years ago......Dallin turned 7 years old on the 15th! I can't believe that it has been that long since I placed him! I got some pictures of him on the 14th (the best V-Day present!). I will have to post some of them on here.
So my second job is now at the Maverik gas station!! It pays more per hour and I don't have to touch raw chicken all day!! BONUS! I haven't started it yet so we will see if I even like it. I know that it kind of seems like a step backwards, but eventually I will get my resume together and give it to all the dentists around here. And hopefully they will consider me for an Assistant. We are just trying to save a little money and it's nice to have something different to do a few days a week. The good thing is is that Joey loves his job and comes home with a smile on his face!
Anyway, Happy late Valentine's Day to all!!  .............January 28 My House(well, my rental house)So here it is! I love it!
Here is the outside. There is a garage, but it has a bunch of stuff in it that is my sister's so we don't really use it yet.
This is my kitchen and dinning room. That is the bathroom door on the left and the washer and dryer is in the upper right corner at the end of the countertop.
Here is my living room from the same spot I took the one of the kitchen. It is a mess and the only room that isn't put together yet. It's only been a week and a half so I still have time untill I'm considered lazy, right?
This is Noah's bed. He loves it! it is built into the wall and it makes a nice little play place for the kids underneath it. Elias is still in a crib and it is on the opposite corner of the room.
This is my closet!! I love it! My brother-in-law built it when they lived in the house. Now I don't have to worry about buying a bigger dresser. We also have a downstairs room with a room for storage/food storage downstairs as well. It is in worse shape than my living room so it's not going to be posted untill it's done. It needs spackle, paint, and new carpet as well so it might be a while untill it is on here. I love my house! It feels like home and not some strange place that we are living in for a little while. Most of all I love it because I don't walk out the front door and right into a cloud of cigarette smoke from my neighbor! Yuck!! January 18 FREEDOM!!!!! So we finally moved out of my parents house!! Yippee!!!!! It hasn't even bee a whole day and our house (yes I said house) is a mess, but it feels great to have our own space! We are renting a house that my sister owns. It's a 3 bedroom, 1 bath, with a basement and a room for some actual food storage. I just have to say...... I love having a house! Not to have to worry what other people are hearing or having to be quiet because there are people living RIGHT NEXT TO us! What a glorious day! I will put pictures on here when I find our camera. I will actually cook food when I can find stuff to cook with. Lots of things to do, but I am not complaining....I have a house!! January 12 Monday MorningA funny story..... As many of you know I have a mentally challenged sister named Sarah. She is 34, still lives with my parents, and for those who have met her know that she is quite the chatter box. With that said, yesterday after church Joey and I were in our room downstairs eating lunch(we live with my parents right now too). My dad and Sarah were in the downstairs family room and I could hear my dad whistling, but I wasn't paying much attention enough to hear much else. At that moment Joey turns to me and says, "Your poor dad". I said, "Why are you saying that?" and before I could finish my sentence I hear my dad yell from the other room, "WOULD YOU BE QUIET! YOU'RE DRIVING ME NUTS!" And then I hear Sarah just giggle and say, "Dad, you a nerd". Joey and I laughed so hard!!! I guess Sarah was sitting there playing a game she got for Christmas and just kept saying, "Hey, dad.....hey, dad...hey, dad" and then rambling on incoherantly about something that happened at church. It was hillarious! It made all that has been sucking lately just go away! I love my sister and she has made our family so much fun! Sometimes I wish I was her! January 04 New year....new callingHappy New Year 2009 to all!! Another year come and gone.....nothing too exciting to report. We had a fun holiday season. Most of my family was here for Christmas and then my brother that lives in Montana was here the weekend after Christmas. My sisters and I surprised my parents with a new freezer and they didn't suspect a thing! We took out their old freezer and put in their new freezer Christmas morning and they were totally shocked! My mom cried, of course, and my dad was all smiles. Mostly because he was in the room were the freezer was, looking for something, and he didn't even notice! I told him that he was getting too old and senial to not notice a HUGE freezer!
Too funny!!New year's eve we sat around and played games and ate WAY TOO MUCH food! My family is big on playing games together so my parents bought all of the siblings a game for their families. (Some of the fun ones we got are "30 Seconds", "Bonehead", "Tangoes", and "Witts End".) Of course we always go out on our front porch and shout "Happy New Year" at midnight and I think that more and more of my parents' neighbors join us each year.
Some of our resolutions this year is, 1-to move out of my parents' house (hopefully that will be a resolution that we actually follow through on
), 2-lose some weight(for me) and hope I never find it, 3-spend more time as a family and less time watching TV, and 4-magnify our callings. I know that New Year's resolutions and kind of dumb 'cuz if you really wanted to do those things you shouldn't need a holiday to motivate you. It's nice to set goals though and I hope that I can reach these in spight of the new year.So we got new callings today......can anyone guess what area in the church we might be serving? *Drum roll please*..............You guessed it! Primary!!!! Joey and I are the new sunbeam teachers!! And for those of you who know me.....yes, we will be teaching Noah who is a brand new Sunbeam. I'm just glad that I get to share it with Joey. I think that he will be lots of fun and we really need things that we can do together lately. We aren't really sure how long we will actually be in the ward though. We might be taking care of resolution #1 sooner than we think. My sister and her husband have a house that they said we can rent and the previous renters are finally out of it! So we might only have this calling for a couple of weeks. We will see!
So Happy New Year to all and I hope that this year will be better than the last! Unless you had a good year last year than pooh on you! No, just kidding! I hope that it is the same or even better! December 17 Merry Christmas!So it has been a while since I last wrote an entry. First I thought that it was my space, but right now I am at my sister's house and now I know that it is not my space, but MY MOM'S computer! How I wish that I had my own computer with my own internet hook up. So here is my update.....I saw 'Twilight'.....I liked it. I had to laugh in a couple spots (like Jasper walking around with his eyes bugging out of his head and when Edward sucked the venom out of Bella, too funny), but over all it was good. I can't wait untill the next one comes out!
Well life has been a little interesting lately. We are still living with my parents. It has it's ups and downs, but I don't really want to move right now considering the average temperature has been -8!! It is freezing up here!! It snowed last saturday and they had to close the highways around the basin. Now it is more like ice chunks rather than snow cuz it's so darn cold!! So that is one reason why we aren't moved. Also, the house that we would move into is still occupied. It's my sister's house that her brother and sister-in-law are living in untill their house is built. Which hopefully will be at the start of the year! How wonderful would that be!!
An update on the boys, Elias just turned 1-years old on the 7th. He still isn't walking, but he takes steps every once and a while. Usually no more than 3 at a time. He is a jabber-jaw and is getting his molars and his canines at the same time. Surprisingly he isn't that miserable most of the time. Noah is still working on the potty training. Or should I say that I am trying to stay on top of reminding him to go potty. I think that I still have a while untill he will finally get it. I am starting to teach him how to write letters and bought some preschool books to work on other aspects of learning. He loves it! He always asks if he can get his books out.
I will be mailing Christmas cards this week. Check your mail and you just might be a lucky recipient! Lucky because I actually remembered, or had written down, your address. Our Christmas plans aren't exciting. We are staying here trying to save a little money. It's hard not to think you have all this money to spend when you don't have rent or a house payment to pay. I just keep thinking....."We have the money to buy MORE PRESENTS.".....Then I have to tell myself "NO!". I hope that everyone is having a great holiday season! If any of the ladies in my old book-club would like to tell me what book you might be reading or have any other book suggestions I am looking for a good read. Merry Christmas to all!!!!November 19 Twilight Dilema!!!!So I have a dilema....it's nothing major, but it came to the surface when Amanda left me a message saying...."Are you ready for Twilight?". The answer to that question is I am, but with hesitation. You know when a movie comes out that is based off of a book and everyone says that the book was better? Or maybe that the movie was nothing like the book? ........I'm already thinking those things just by seeing the previews. In my mind Edward looked blonder and better looking than the actor they chose for him. And Bella, in my imagination, wasn't such a tomboy and the actress' voice sounds so deep to me. Am I just totally crazy or what?
 Maybe just my expectaions, or hopes, are way too high......why is this even important in the grand scheme of things? I'm still going to see the movie and I already read all the books, so we will see what my opinion is after this weekend.......*Cue soap-opera music*  Dum dum dum.........Till then....November 17 FallI just have to say what a wonderful day that I had today. It was a beautiful day today! It was 50 degrees and no wind. Just a gorgeous fall day! It started out kind of slow....woke up, got kids bathed and dressed, folded laundry, sat around for a little while.......Joey is working the "graveyard shift" tonight so that means he doesn't have to be to work until 11PM so he was home...with me....ALL day.....Now, I love my husband, but when you are not used to them being home all day they tend to throw off your daily "mojo".
So, we decided that it was too beautiful to sit inside so we went to the park. Well on the way there (which is only about 4 blocks) BOTH boys fell asleep! So we turned around and put them down for a nap......let me tell you how nice it is to have both kids asleep at the same time.....It's bliss!!! Just to sit and have a moment of peace.......aaaahhhh!
Now back to my story...after the nap we headed to the park and Noah ran all over the play set. Elias crawled to where ever he could crawl to. They both went up stairs and down slides and rode spring-loaded dinosaurs! After that we played some soccer and "tackle" football (it was more like "fall over when Noah grabs you" football). It was sssssoooooo much fun!! It is days like these that make all the other bad days melt away. It helped me to fall in love with my family all over again! November 09 It's A Girl! (Take 2)For those of you who actaully read my blog and saw my last entry about my neice......I had to delete it. I got an email from MSN saying that I had a picture that wasn't appropriate and I had to delete it or they would delete me, well my blog. That makes me sick and saddened! Mostly sick! To think that people actually look at newborn babies that way....YUCK!!!!
For those of you who actually read my blog and DIDN'T see my last entry......I have a new neice born on the 2nd of November. Her name is Jaelen and she is a dolly! I really don't feel like saying much more than that because I am a little upset. Here is a picture of her that I hopefully won't get an email about....
She is adorable and a week old as of today.
To those sick-o's out there...Shame on you!! You disgust me and make life a lot more diffucult to live. As if it wasn't hard enough all ready. Thanks a bunch. October 31 This is Halloween!
This is how we do halloween in wyoming! Just kidding..I found it on-line and thought it was funny. Happy Halloween everyone!!! I hope that tonight goes better than last night at the carnival. Noah did not want to get into his costume for anything or anyone! He is in this funk that mom and dad know nothing and he is going to do what he wants. It's driving me crazy!! Anyway.....enough venting......our family has a tradition on Halloween that we go 'trick or treating' then come home and have hot apple cider and eat doughnuts! Yummy!! As if candy wasn't enough. It is nice to have something warm and sweet that isn't candy since most years we are 'trick or treating' in the snow! This year is going to be warm. It was 70 degrees yesterday!! I'm loving it!! What are some of your Halloween traditions?
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